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Multicenter retrospective study on management and outcome of newborns affected by surgical necrotizing enterocolitis
- Source :
- Minerva chirurgica. 72(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Background Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is the most common surgical emergency in newborns and it is still a leading cause of death despite the improvements reached in the management of the critically ill neonate. The purpose of this study was to evaluate risk factors, surgical treatments and outcome of surgical NEC. Methods We retrospectively evaluated a multicentric group of 184 patients with surgical NEC over a period of 5 years (2008-2012). Indications to operation were modified NEC Bell stages IIIA or IIIB. The main outcome was measured in terms of survival and postsurgical complications. Results Data on 184 patients who had a surgical NEC were collected. The majority of patients (153) had a primary laparotomy (83%); 10 patients had peritoneal drainage insertion alone (5%) and 21 patients had peritoneal drainage followed by laparotomy (12%). Overall mortality was 28%. Patients with lower gestational age (P=0.001), lower birth weight (P=0.001), more extensive intestinal involvement (P=0.002) and cardiac diseases (P=0.012) had a significantly higher incidence of mortality. There was no statistically significant association between free abdominal air on the X-ray and mortality (P=0.407). Mortality in the drainage group was 60%, in the laparotomy group and drainage followed by laparotomy group was of 23-24% (P=0.043). There was a high incidence of stenosis (28%) in the drainage group (P=0.002). On multivariable regression, lower birth weight, feeding, bradycardia-desaturation and extent of bowel involvement were independent predictors of mortality. Conclusions Laparotomy was the most frequent method of treatment (83%). Primary laparotomy and drainage with laparotomy groups had similar mortalities (23-24%), while the drainage alone treatment cohort was associated with the highest mortality (60%) with statistical value (P=0.043). Consequently laparotomy is highly protective in terms of survival rate. Stenosis seemed to be statistically associated with drainage. These findings could discourage the use of peritoneal drainage versus a primary laparotomy whenever the clinical conditions of patients allow this procedure.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Birth weight
necrotizing
Gestational Age
Suction
Severity of Illness Index
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Enterocolitis, Necrotizing
Risk Factors
030225 pediatrics
Laparotomy
pathologic
medicine
Birth Weight
Humans
Surgical emergency
Mortality
Survival rate
Retrospective Studies
Enterocolitis
Constriction
Drainage
Necrotizing
Pathologic
Incidence
Infant, Newborn
Italy
Survival Rate
business.industry
Medicine (all)
Gestational age
Infant
Retrospective cohort study
medicine.disease
Newborn
Settore MED/20 - Chirurgia Pediatrica e Infantile
Surgery
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Necrotizing enterocolitis
Settore MED/20
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18271626
- Volume :
- 72
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Minerva chirurgica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cf360a889b4ee2fc42577c90a21542e0